Palit GeForce 7600 GT Sonic Graphics Card: Extreme Voltmodding Guide

Today we are going to introduce to you an excellent solution for the buck – the new GeForce 7600 GT from Palit. It boasts unique design different from the reference and with a little effort can be modified to hit new performance heights. Read more in our detailed review!

Palit, Yuan, Daytona, XpertVision, Gainward… I’m not sure if this list is complete. What does it mean? I guess experienced users who are interested in PC hardware should know that Palit Corporation is today a major graphics card manufacturer and owns all those trademarks. There’s no unanimous opinion about one company having so many brands. On one hand, the user is offered a larger choice, especially since Palit has always offered an appealing price/performance ratio (note that I don’t mention quality here). On the other hand, a carefree user may be enticed into buying a cut-down version of some full-featured model. Such a version may have slower memory, a narrower bus, a simplified PCB, fewer graphics pipelines, etc.

Today, I am going to test a Palit GeForce 7600 GT Sonic graphics card. We’ve already written about the 7600 GT on the pages of our site, but it is such a wonderful product that we just can’t stop admiring it. Its excellent performance comes at a lower price, now that the initial excitement has subsided. Graphics card makers are not confined to the reference design with this card, so there have appeared a number of original designs from several companies. The card to be discussed in this review uses a non-reference design of the PCB, too.

Palit GeForce 7600 GT Sonic: Overview

The Palit GeForce 7600 GT Sonic comes in a large and glossy cardboard box embellished with the traditional emblem of that manufacturer, a fairy Chinese girl. She is a lucid indication of the place of origin of the product.

The box is filled with a porous material to protect the card during transportation. A manufacturer’s attention to such small things is always praiseworthy.

The box contains:

Palit GeForce 7600 GT Sonic graphics card

DVI – D-Sub adapter

Component video cable

CD with drivers

CD with CyberLink PowerDVD 5

DVD with Conflict: Desert Storm

User manual

The accessories are up to the class of the product, including a good software bundle besides the necessities. Here’s the graphics card:

Its PCB is red, which is typical of Palit, and non-standard. I’ll talk about it in the next section.